Cyril Hanouna

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Cyril Hanouna
Cyril Hanouna at the studios of Europe 1
Born
Cyril Valéry Isaac Hanouna

(1974-09-23) 23 September 1974 (age 49)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench & Tunisian
Other namesLe bouffon devenu roi, Baba
Occupation(s)Broadcaster, writer, actor, comedian, singer
Known forTouche pas à mon poste !

Cyril Valéry Isaac Hanouna (French pronunciation:

radio and television presenter, writer, author, columnist, producer, singer and occasional actor and comedian of Tunisian origin. He is best known for hosting the popular French TV show Touche pas à mon poste
.

Early life

Hanouna was born into a

Jewish family, the son of a general practitioner and a clothing shopkeeper who had both arrived in France from Tunis in 1969. Like his father, Hanouna first chose medical studies.[1] Having experienced academic difficulties in high school, he decided to study management with the goal of becoming a certified accountant, but later abandoned his studies.[2]

Career

Highlights

Hanouna made his television debut in 1999 on the TV channel

Comédie+, where he composed the texts for its trailers. Hanouna became a television presenter in 2002 when he co-hosted the third series of La Grosse Émission alongside the comedy duo Kad et Olivier. In February 2002 he was approached by RTL Radio[3] and he hosted a radio show called Planet Arthur[4] alongside Manu Levy and Valérie Bénaïm. In 2003 he hosted the morning show Morning Live[5] on M6
.

Since 2008, Hanouna has been associated with the Eurovision Song Contest. At the 2008 contest, he presented the French tele-votes and provided the French commentary for the 2009 and 2010 contests alongside Julien Courbet and Stéphane Bern.[3]

Currently, Hanouna is affiliated with

La Vérité si je mens !.[7]

Hanouna is presently the producer of his own entertainment company, H2O Productions, where he works on some of the most popular TV shows on France's channel C8 (as D8 has been renamed). He is also active on almost all TV channels owned by Vincent Bolloré (Direct 8, Direct Star and Canal+). In 2015 Bolloré spent 250 million euros to retain Hanouna.[8]

In 2019, and in reaction to the French

yellow vests movement, Hanouna proposed a television show to be co-hosted by a French politician that would seek to address the everyday concerns of French citizens.[9]

Controversies

Cyril Hanouna has often received satirical awards from Gérards de la Télévision: Industrial Mistake Award 2007, Worst Presenter 2013 and 2014, The Presenter Who Doesn't Need Drugs 2016.[10] In February 2016, he was drawn by Charlie Hebdo as a mosquito sucking out children's brains.[11]

He is described as an annoying clown, switching from hysterical chuckles to vulgarities, and is involved in several affairs such as offering non-existent gifts,[12] ripping a book during a broadcast,[13] humiliating journalists and collaborators and making sexist and homophobic jokes.[14][15] In February 2016 two French journalists (Julien Cazarre and Arnaud Ramsay) reported that they received threats from Hanouna when they refused to appear on his show.[16] Society magazine compiled a long report about him, describing him as "tyrannical, pretentious, full of anger," managing his team with "scabrous practices", based on evidence coming from his own collaborators (who were anonymously quoted).[17] Stéphane Guillon, another Canal+ presenter, describes Hanouna as the "Kim Jong-Il of C8".[18]

In November and December 2016, the

Touche Pas a Mon Poste because of frequent humiliations and sexist and homophobic statements during the broadcast.[19] In one segment of the show, Hanouna posted a fake gay dating profile online using a torso picture of gay model Max Emerson and mocked the men who responded to the profile while he was live on air. The segment triggered nearly 20,000 complaints to regulators and condemnation from LGBT groups.[20][21]

In December 2016, the French association of LGBT journalists counted 42 sexist and homophobic jokes, and describes him as an unapologetic promoter of homophobia.[22]

Discography

Singles

Year Album Peak positions Certification
FR
[23]
2015 "Bogda Bogdanov" 34
2016 "Petit Baba Noel" 2

Filmography

Radio

References

  1. ^ (in French) [Interview de Cyril Hanouna dans l'émission Il n'y a pas qu'une vie dans la vie sur Europe 1, 5 mai 2013]
  2. ^ "FR Archives" (in French). lunion.com. Archived from the original on 18 December 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2015.
  3. ^ a b (in French) Career of Cyril Hanouna Archived 22 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine, agenceartistiques.com
  4. ^ (in French) Rire & Chansons, une nouvelle matinale Archived 29 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine, radioactu.com
  5. ^ (in French) Cyril Hanouna, le commando du matin Archived 21 June 2015 at the Wayback Machine, ladepeche.fr
  6. ^ (in French) Official Website of Touche pas à mon poste Archived 22 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine, d8.tv
  7. ^ (in French) Cyril Hanouna at cast of La Vérité si je mens ! 3 Archived 21 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Première.fr.
  8. ^ (in French) Vincent Bolloré débourse 250 millions d’euros pour garder Cyril Hanouna sur D8, Lemonde.fr.
  9. ^ (in French) https://www.lemonde.fr/actualite-medias/article/2019/01/26/et-hanouna-se-transforma-en-journaliste-politique_5414789_3236.html
  10. ^ (in French) Gérard de la télévision - List of prizewinners 2016 Archived 13 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Lefigaro.fr.
  11. ^ (in French) «Le virus qui rend con» : Charlie Hebdo se paie Cyril Hanouna Archived 19 July 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Ladepeche.fr.
  12. ^ (in French) Quand Touche Pas a Mon Poste ne fait pas de cadeaux Archived 25 October 2016 at the Wayback Machine, nouvelobs.com.
  13. ^ (in French) Kendji Girac approuve Cyril Hanouna, qui avait déchiré sa biographie en direct sur D8, 20minutes.fr.
  14. ^ (in French) Touche pas à mon poste : il fallait mieux le rater Archived 2 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Lefigaro.fr.
  15. ^ (in French) Cyril Hanouna se chope le melon Archived 13 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Rtl.be.
  16. ^ (in French) Affaire Cyril Hanouna : la plainte de Julien Cazarre classée, Arnaud Ramsay toujours blacklisté Archived 16 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Lefigaro.fr.
  17. ^ (in French) Pratiques scabreuses, colères, menaces: l'enquête à charge qui dézingue Hanouna Archived 1 May 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Lefigaro.fr.
  18. ^ (in French) Stéphane Guillon dénonce les «méthodes mafieuses» de Cyril Hanouna, Leparisien.fr.
  19. ^ (in French) Le CSA engage une procédure de sanction contre C8 et « Touche pas à mon poste », Lemonde.fr.
  20. ^ "Cyril Hanouna: French host humiliated gay men on live TV". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Archived from the original on 31 August 2017. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  21. ^ Wong, Curtis M. (24 May 2017). "French TV Host Plays Cruel Joke On Gay Men And Sparks Global Backlash". Huffington Post. Archived from the original on 15 January 2018. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
  22. ^ (in French) ‘’TPMP’’ en novembre : un mois d'homophobie ordinaire Archived 21 December 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Lepoint.fr.
  23. ^ "Cyril Hanouna discography". lescharts.com. Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 28 May 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

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